A Meta-Analytic Explanation Of Interventions
Article Critique
Instructions:
1. Using this template, complete your article critique and submit this document to Blackboard.
2. Summary must include all five criteria:
a. Introduction and rationale for the research
b. Major strengths/weaknesses in the article.
c. Summary of research outcome.
d. Two methods of applying this research to practice.
e. Conclusion
3. To begin your summary on the next page of this template insert a page break.
4. Use APA formatting.
The article, School Counseling Outcome: A Meta-Analytic Explanation of Interventions, written by Whiston, S., Tai, W., Rahardja, D., and Eder, K. is research done to show if certain interventions and techniques used by school counselors are effective. The article discussed two types of studies, one with controlled comparisons and another involving pre and posttest differences. The article began with the history of counseling and the model counselors are using. Campbell and Dahir’s (as cited in Whiston, Tai, Rahardja, & Eder, 2011), “specified that school counselors should coordinate a program that facilitates academic, …show more content…
Counseling also helped with discipline, problem solving, and career knowledge compared to students not receiving any interventions. This shows the importance of having a school counselor and the role they play in making a difference in the lives they touch. Both studies indicated the “effectiveness of a balance approach to school counseling that provides a guidance curriculum to all students and responsive services that respond to students’ issues” (Whiston, Tai, Rahardja, & Eder, 2011). In this study we can see how important a school counselor is to students facing difficult issues. It is noted how some interventions can help a student be successful with academics, social interactions, and
Instructions:
1. Using this template, complete your article critique and submit this document to Blackboard.
2. Summary must include all five criteria:
a. Introduction and rationale for the research
b. Major strengths/weaknesses in the article.
c. Summary of research outcome.
d. Two methods of applying this research to practice.
e. Conclusion
3. To begin your summary on the next page of this template insert a page break.
4. Use APA formatting.
The article, School Counseling Outcome: A Meta-Analytic Explanation of Interventions, written by Whiston, S., Tai, W., Rahardja, D., and Eder, K. is research done to show if certain interventions and techniques used by school counselors are effective. The article discussed two types of studies, one with controlled comparisons and another involving pre and posttest differences. The article began with the history of counseling and the model counselors are using. Campbell and Dahir’s (as cited in Whiston, Tai, Rahardja, & Eder, 2011), “specified that school counselors should coordinate a program that facilitates academic, …show more content…
Counseling also helped with discipline, problem solving, and career knowledge compared to students not receiving any interventions. This shows the importance of having a school counselor and the role they play in making a difference in the lives they touch. Both studies indicated the “effectiveness of a balance approach to school counseling that provides a guidance curriculum to all students and responsive services that respond to students’ issues” (Whiston, Tai, Rahardja, & Eder, 2011). In this study we can see how important a school counselor is to students facing difficult issues. It is noted how some interventions can help a student be successful with academics, social interactions, and